This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the principles, processes, and challenges of international sourcing and procurement. It explores key topics such as global sourcing strategies, regional economic integration, the impact of globalization, and the role of regulatory frameworks like the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Participants will gain insights into the procurement lifecycle, including bidder evaluation, due diligence, and risk mitigation strategies in cross-border trade. The course also covers essential topics such as Incoterms, clearing and forwarding procedures, and documentation required for international transactions.

Additionally, emerging issues such as sustainable procurement, environmental concerns, gender diversity, and the role of global value chains in procurement will be examined. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped with practical skills to manage international procurement processes effectively while navigating cultural, political, and economic complexities in global trade.

Course description:

Legal Frameworks in business is a module that provides an insight into and an understanding of the workings of business organizations, including their formation and effect, operations and management. The module explores not only the business entity, but also the practical implications of such entities entering into binding obligations and contracts, the issue of liabilities, and protection conferred on management and investors. This module is primarily concerned with the regulation of organizations whose principle purpose and functions are the undertaking of some business activity. The module recognizes that a considerable amount of business activity is undertaken outside the legal structure of the limited liability company and therefore takes into account various business organizations– the syllabus requires consideration of incorporated and unincorporated associations. Sole trader, partnership and other types of unincorporated association are considered, although the focus of the course is the incorporated company. This reflects the view that the courts borrow principles that relate to other business organizations when developing legal principles to apply to the registered company.

 Learning objectives: The learners in this course are expected to be able to:

 Explain the meaning of law

1. Explain the business legal framework in Uganda
2. Apply commercial law subjects to area of work and practice.
3. Apply the knowledge of contract law to other areas of business law.
4. Develop theoretical and interdisciplinary understanding of the context, scope and purpose of government regulation of business
5. Develop in-depth understanding about local labor-management relations, product liability and public policy;
6. Identify and explain the legal issues arising in some of the main day-to-day dealings of business organizations and provide advice or commentary relating to those issues
7. Define and discuss the core concepts inherent in the legal structure of business organizations
8. Interpret the main statutory provision relevant to the areas covered by the syllabus
9. Demonstrate reading in depth beyond merely the subject guide.

Dear participants, you are welcome to this Module on Management Information Systems.  In this module, we shall focus on management information systems and the role they play in organizations.

The module provides theoretical, analytical and practical skills to understanding management information systems.  The module is made up of seven units.  It is centred around the fundamental premise that the primary role of information technology is to provide organisations with strategic advantage by facilitating problem solving, increasing productivity and quality, increasing speed, improving customer service, enhancing communication and collaboration and enabling business process restructuring. In addition, the module will expose participants to debates on current issues in business information management and to create an awareness of the usefulness and limitations of information systems in organisations.

Status:  Core module,Year 1 Semester 2, Credit Units 4 (60 CHs)

MODULE RATIONALE

For many organizations Business Managers are presented with many complex choices in the context of a future that is inherently uncertain. This module will enable the participant to take a strategic approach to planning to achieve sustainable advantage .For many organizations marketing has evolved from a set of tactical actions into a significant element of strategy, this module will provide you with an in-depth consideration of marketing Management capabilities that can be embedded within a strategic marketing plan. Marketing Management is very important as it is an integral part of any business ranging from setting and communicating objectives, strategies, tactics, implementation, evaluation and feedback including the emerging digital marketing management on social media platform in organizations.

MODULE DESCRIPTION

Marketing Management module is both theoretical and practical and has research component and it runs for three weeks (8 days) for weekend in the First semester, year one as a core module. The module enhances the capacity of Managers to effectively and efficiently manage their marketing activities in their organizations, programs and projects. The module emphasises practical skills which results in developing a marketing plan.

MODULE AIM

To enable participants to understand how to take a strategic approach in marketing planning to achieve competitive advantage. It recognises the significance of situation analysis and introduces techniques for assessing the external and internal environments that enable effective decision making. The module outlines the importance of all stages within the marketing planning process, from the audit, through strategic decision making, to implementation of plans. It outlines how managing resources and employing monitoring and measurement techniques enables the achievement of strategic marketing objectives.

MODULE OBJECTIVES

The objective of this module is to train participants to apply concepts and techniques in marketing so that they become acquainted with the duties of a marketing manager. More specifically, participants should be exposed to the development, evaluation, and implementation of marketing management in a variety of business environments. Specifically, this module targets: • To apply marketing theory and concepts to what marketers do in "the real world" • To use marketing concepts to make business decisions • To improve familiarity with current challenges and issues in marketing

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course Participants will be able to:

1. Appreciate marketing management concepts, tools and techniques and their roles in marketing organizations.

2. Develop a strategic marketing plan to realise organisational objectives

3. Apply marketing skills and execute marketing and sales roles

4. Analyze and interpret market related scenarios in the market environment, and formulate and effectively manage marketing programmes

5. Use marketing and sales forces and evaluate marketing performance